How to use the C socket API in C++ on z/OS

Question

I\'m having issues getting the C sockets API to work properly in C++ on z/OS.

Although I am including sys/socket.h, I still get compile time errors telling m

Answer 1

DISCLAIMER: I am not a C++ programmer, however I know C really well. I adapated these calls from some C code I have.

Also markdown put these strange _ as my underscores.

You should just be able to write an abstraction class around the C sockets with something like this:

class my_sock {
    private int sock;
    private int socket_type;
    private socklen_t sock_len;
    private struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
    public char *server_ip;
    public unsigned short server_port;
};

Then have methods for opening, closing, and sending packets down the socket.

For example, the open call might look something like this:

int my_socket_connect()
{
    int return_code = 0;

    if ( this->socket_type != CLIENT_SOCK ) {
        cout << "This is a not a client socket!\n";
        return -1;
    }

    return_code = connect( this->local_sock, (struct sockaddr *) &this->server_addr, sizeof(this->server_addr));

    if( return_code < 0 ) {
        cout << "Connect() failure! %s\n", strerror(errno);
        return return_code;
    }

    return return_code;
}

Answer 2

I've had no trouble using the BSD sockets API in C++, in GNU/Linux. Here's the sample program I used:

#include <sys/socket.h>

int
main()
{
    return AF_INET;
}

So my take on this is that z/OS is probably the complicating factor here, however, because I've never used z/OS before, much less programmed in it, I can't say this definitively. :-P

Answer 3

So try

#define _OE_SOCKETS

before you include sys/socket.h